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The Great Papyrus ([personal profile] spagheleton) wrote2016-01-07 07:51 pm
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⌈ PLAYER SECTION ⌉

Player: AF
Contact: [plurk.com profile] hotandcoldaf
Age: 26
Current Characters: N/A (Though I played Bols and Yomiel here last year if you remember them?)


⌈ CHARACTER SECTION ⌉

Character: Papyrus
Age: Appx. ???? years old. Young adult...ish???
Canon: Undertale
Canon Point: Following his boss fight, but before his date with the protagonist

Background: Wiki link!

Personality: Papyrus is very Papyrus. And let me tell you, it's damn tempting to just leave it at that as being a self-sufficient explanation. Papyrus does everything to the utmost, including and most especially being himself. He is whole-heartedly, fervently, utterly, sincerely earnest. This cannot be emphasized enough, the English language is simply not capable of it. Everything Papyrus does, he does 120%. He may not always succeed at what he sets out to do (and, indeed, often doesn't), but no one can ever say that it's for lack of trying. He's a very dedicated, hard worker, and the very idea of giving less than his best effort in anything is anathema to him. He is, after all, The Great Papyrus! It might be a self-appointed appellation, but it's one he wholeheartedly believes in. I would say it's one he's determined to live up to, but as far as he's concerned, being great comes naturally to him. What he actually has to work hard at is getting other people to recognize it.

Papyrus has some, uh, difficulty accomplishing this, though. Despite his gung-ho attitude and belief that he's super great, he is, to be perfectly frank, kind of incompetent in most things he tries. The spaghetti he cooks (and he cooks a damn lot of spaghetti; he fucking loves the stuff) can be charitably described as inedible, and despite how passionate he is about puzzles, he isn't actually terribly good at solving them, and most of the puzzles around his home, he just bypasses entirely rather than actually solve them. He's knowledgeable about his passions, easily listing off a long variety of pasta types and keeping a copy of Advanced Puzzle Construction among his favorite books, but unfortunately, knowledge doesn't translate to ability. He just plain isn't good at most things, and he is honestly kind of dumb on top of it. Which isn't to say that there aren't things that he is good at. He is genuinely very organized and responsible, a stickler for cleanliness, and a goddamn pro at being a total fucking sweetheart.

You see, monsters are, by nature, loving and compassionate, but Papyrus, as previously mentioned, excels at taking things above and beyond. Papyrus is the only monster in the game who absolutely cannot, will not kill the player. Even the player character's adoptive mother figure can accidentally kill them, despite trying not to, but Papyrus will stop his attack immediately if he's about to strike a fatal blow. He only wants to capture the player, not harm them. (Sure, if he could actually successfully capture the player and pass them along to his superiors, it would lead to their demise, but he doesn't realize that, see earlier words about him not always being the brightest bone in the graveyard.) And should the player go down the genocide path, Papyrus won't fight them at all. Instead, he confronts the player about the dangerous path their life is going down, telling them that everyone can be a great person if they just try, and that he'll gladly be their friend and help them improve themselves. And even after he's been struck down in cold blood, as he dies, he continues to tell the player that they can be a better person, that he believes in them.

He might not recognize it himself, but this is what truly makes Papyrus Great, this unconditional belief in other people. The way he talks himself up, it's easy to think he's completely self-absorbed, and he is self-centered to a... large extent, to be honest, but mostly, really, it's that he sees the best in himself because he sees the best in everyone. The player can try to insult him, but he always interprets it in a way that reflects favorably on them. (This is, granted, still partially because obviously he's great so they can't be calling him a loser, but it's also assuming the best of the player and their motives.) His friendship is wholly unconditional and freely given and all but impossible to refuse. Papyrus, after all, really, really wants to make friends. He doesn't have very many before the game starts, you see. He wants to have friends, and lots of them, but, like many things, he doesn't seem to... actually... understand how to make friends. His overbearing, self-centered personality makes for a poor first impression and he has a bad habit of talking over people. Also he places a disproportionate focus on a friend being someone you admire more than just someone you like and get along with. AND I SHOULD PROBABLY MENTION THAT HE ALWAYS TALKS IN CAPS LOCK, I.E. IS TOTALLY YELLING EVERYTHING HE SAYS? THAT PROBABLY DOESN'T HELP, EITHER. But his difficulty making friends does mean he really cherishes the ones he does have.

Of course, he's not without things he dislikes. As much as he loves order, cleanliness, and productivity (or, at least, things he views as productive, which may not always be objectively so), he detests chaos, dirtiness, and sloth. This often causes friction with his gross layabout brother, Sans, but in, y'know, that loving sibling sort of way. You don't really have a brother unless he's driving you up the wall sometimes. A lot of times. Maybe all the times. But, no, he really does care about Sans and is a major force in getting Sans to actually do shit sometimes, like, say, actually get a fucking job instead of lazing about the house all day. If nothing else, Papyrus is a pretty damn good motivator. Because in situations like these, you should just do what he would do and believe in you!!!

Abilities: Papyrus is a skeleton monster. Undertale's monsters are made primarily of magic, with a little physical matter to hold them together. This makes differences in willpower have a profound effect on them: their fighting strength and defense is directly proportional to their will to fight, and a blow struck with strong malice behind it will completely destroy them.

Magic is also a cornerstone of monster communication, usually in the form of bullet pattern fights. Papyrus attacks exclusively with sliding bones, supplemented by his "blue attack," which increases his target's personal gravity or something like that Undertale's combat system does not always translate to physical space very well. Papyrus hits pretty solidly and uses some creative and unpredictable patterns, making him a dangerous opponent, or, rather, it would if he weren't too much of a cinnamon roll to seriously hurt anyone. His control over his magic is very precise—he will literally stop dead mid-attack if the player is about to die, something no other monster demonstrates the ability to do.

He also has some general perks from being a skeleton, like immunity to extreme temperatures on account of not having any skin. The exact differences between skeletons and humans or other monsters is kind of unclear and variable, depending mostly on what happens to be funniest at the time.

Alignment: Piphron. Papyrus is possessed of an unfailing belief that anyone can be a good person and always assumes the best of everyone. He is, in short, very trusting. Gullible, even, at times. And, of course, he is himself very honest, i.e. trustworthy (albeit not always reliable).

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⌈ SAMPLE SECTION ⌉

Sample: Test drive thread!

Questions: how many businesses is he going to end up banned from if I make him constantly exude glitter as an emotional effect